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What kind of dirtbag would choose those organizations to attack? That’s the lowest of the low.

dmix 7y ago
They've always been intelligence targets. Any organization closely tied to regional conflicts, and therefore intelligence agencies and the military, is going to be a target. Red Cross and Unicef show up everywhere there's a serious conflict. Often the very first western organizations there. The job of most intel agencies is to keep their governments up to date on those conflicts. Especially one involved in plenty of global conflicts like Russia. I'm sure the US embeds agents with them all the time.
- dmurray 7y ago
  Also good for outrage, the main ingredient of modern media. Once the enemy fires on a Red Cross branded outpost, they must be the bad guys, no matter how many of the doctors were actually intelligence operatives. Using NGOs like this should be as unacceptable as using outright human shields, but as always, it's different when the perfidious foreigners do it.
  - tveita 7y ago
    > Once the enemy fires on a Red Cross branded outpost, they must be the bad guys, no matter how many of the doctors were actually intelligence operatives. I mean, yes? At what number of intelligence operatives would firing at Red Cross workers be a good thing? > Using NGOs like this should be as unacceptable as using outright human shields Yes. But, like human shields, firing on them with disregard will indeed make people think you're the bad guys.
- ComodoHacker 7y ago
  >They've always been intelligence targets ...and intelligence cover.
morpheuskafka 7y ago
They're probably not trying to interfere with their operations but rather to obtain any geopolitical intelligence they can from their files.
- jacobush 7y ago
  Only kill them. Otherwise not interfere.
Zpdr5fure 7y ago
This kind of dirtbags https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/19/the-u-n-helps-syria-bomb-the-opposition/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/19/the-u-n-helps-syria-bom... and this https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/4030-unicef-lends-itself-to-dictatorship-propaganda-european-games https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/4030-unicef-lends-itself-to-d... and also this https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/united-nations/hold-unicef-accountable-for-falsehoods-on-iraq/ https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/united-nat...
anigbrowl 7y ago
It's cyberwarfare.
ourmandave 7y ago
The CIA ran a fake vaccination campaign to try and locate Osama bin Laden by gathering DNA samples. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vaccination-campaign-endangers-us-all/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc... So now how do you know if the next humanitarian group running around your country isn't full of U.S. spooks?
- solstice 7y ago
  "The misguided vaccine program in Pakistan was started in a poor neighborhood of Abbottabad, no doubt to give it an air of legitimacy. Yet after the first in a standard series of three hepatitis B shots was given, the effort was abandoned so that the team could move to bin Laden's wealthier community. This lapse in protocol proves that the best interests of the recipients were not the guiding principle of the effort—while not coincidently betraying the program for the sham it was." Damn, they couldn't even be arsed to give them the full number of shots

dmix 7y ago

They've always been intelligence targets. Any organization closely tied to regional conflicts, and therefore intelligence agencies and the military, is going to be a target. Red Cross and Unicef show up everywhere there's a serious conflict. Often the very first western organizations there. The job of most intel agencies is to keep their governments up to date on those conflicts. Especially one involved in plenty of global conflicts like Russia. I'm sure the US embeds agents with them all the time.

dmurray 7y ago
Also good for outrage, the main ingredient of modern media. Once the enemy fires on a Red Cross branded outpost, they must be the bad guys, no matter how many of the doctors were actually intelligence operatives. Using NGOs like this should be as unacceptable as using outright human shields, but as always, it's different when the perfidious foreigners do it.
- tveita 7y ago
  > Once the enemy fires on a Red Cross branded outpost, they must be the bad guys, no matter how many of the doctors were actually intelligence operatives. I mean, yes? At what number of intelligence operatives would firing at Red Cross workers be a good thing? > Using NGOs like this should be as unacceptable as using outright human shields Yes. But, like human shields, firing on them with disregard will indeed make people think you're the bad guys.
ComodoHacker 7y ago
>They've always been intelligence targets ...and intelligence cover.

morpheuskafka 7y ago

They're probably not trying to interfere with their operations but rather to obtain any geopolitical intelligence they can from their files.

jacobush 7y ago
Only kill them. Otherwise not interfere.

Zpdr5fure 7y ago

This kind of dirtbags https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/19/the-u-n-helps-syria-bomb-the-opposition/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/19/the-u-n-helps-syria-bom... and this https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/4030-unicef-lends-itself-to-dictatorship-propaganda-european-games https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/4030-unicef-lends-itself-to-d... and also this https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/united-nations/hold-unicef-accountable-for-falsehoods-on-iraq/ https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/united-nat...

anigbrowl 7y ago

It's cyberwarfare.

ourmandave 7y ago

The CIA ran a fake vaccination campaign to try and locate Osama bin Laden by gathering DNA samples. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vaccination-campaign-endangers-us-all/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vacc... So now how do you know if the next humanitarian group running around your country isn't full of U.S. spooks?

solstice 7y ago
"The misguided vaccine program in Pakistan was started in a poor neighborhood of Abbottabad, no doubt to give it an air of legitimacy. Yet after the first in a standard series of three hepatitis B shots was given, the effort was abandoned so that the team could move to bin Laden's wealthier community. This lapse in protocol proves that the best interests of the recipients were not the guiding principle of the effort—while not coincidently betraying the program for the sham it was." Damn, they couldn't even be arsed to give them the full number of shots